The word define ''Multiculturalism''

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Name :-Krishna R Khamal

Roll No:- 15

Enrollment no:-PG20170014

Paper No:- 8

Batch:-2016/2018

Name of the Paper:- Cultural Studies

Topic :- The word define ''Multiculturalism''

Submitted to:- Department of English ,MKBU.

Preface

             There are three words which are more difficult as under,

     ~Literature

     ~Discourse

     ~Culture

And among these three ,culture is difficult one.Because it different with different faculties.Culture is the word which is also related with society,people,education,etc.so we can say that it is Umbrella term ,various meaning Let's understand the word in detail.

The word ''Culture''

    The word 'culture' derived from  ''culture'' and 'Colere'It means' to cultivate'.It also meant ''to honour'' and ''protect''in general culture  means way of living life or tradition.For example Indian clothes that we called ''Sari for woman and Kadiyu for man'' That is our Indian culture but British culture is different.In literature we also apply cultural studies.WE analysis that which culture we can see in text ,that is cultural study in literature.Then we compare their culture with our culture.In culture we can't limited it's meaning and ideas.Then which meanings are valid and meanings are governed by power relations.

   Culture also deals with language for example,if we try to speak more english in society so generally people say that''Follower of British culture'',In India girls wear short clothes so people say's is destroying our culture'. So we can say that meaning of culture is different in different countries.Our writers wrote about our culture.and African writers wrote about their culture.

     There is also one other word popular culture.It is the culture of masses.It is graffiti,comic books,popular music,mass cinema,the open space of the city,sports,etc.It is the culture of everyday life of the larger number of people.now a day books of Chetan Bhagat is also popular.

        If two cultures combined with each other ,so it becomes 'Multiculturalism'. But how it attached? So let's know it in details.

Multiculturalism

           The demand is to open the canon' so as to make it multiculturalism.It means adopting other culture.we use other culture with our that is multiculturalism.Now a day we can see that our traditional clothes are different and we wear western clothes.so called multiculturalism.Especially we wear jins with dupata that is the combination of culture.Generally our foods are multiple like chines,bread,rotala,etc.Everything becomes multi because  of multiculturalism. Our  foods, clothes, style, language, way of living life, education are not traditional.We can see many changes in all this things.Like in India most of the people study Sanskrit language but now they learn english ,Sanskrit language marginalized.we study in buildings not in forest or beneath the tree so once again it called multiculturalism.In marriages ,''Dulha'' wearing coat with safe.People like to do business rather than farming.People more like to live in Villages,once again it is against of our Indian culture.But now a day it is acceptable in society.People like to follow other culture.

 

 In this picture we can see that these foreigner girls are playing Holi.And Holi is the festival of India so we can say that it is  Multiculturalism.

Defination of the  '' Multiculturalism''

  Multiculturalism refers to the historical evolution of culture diversity within a jurisdictio,incarnated by its selection policies and institutionalized by its settlement policies'.

        'Multiculturalism is phenomenon of multiple group of cultures existing within one society'.

 ' Multiculturalism occurs naturally when a society is                                                 willing to accept the culture of immigrants'

     The experience  of living in a society transformed by mass immigration,a society that is less insular ,more vibrant and more cosmopolitan,is positive .Now let's we undersatnd        it in different countries.

Australia  :- The Australian government retains multiculturalism in policy and as defining aspect of Australia today.The white policy was quitely dismantled after 2 world war by various changes to immigration policy. The election of John Howard's Liberal National Coalition government in 1996 was a major watershed for Australia multiculturalism.Howard had long been a critic of multiculuturalism, releasing hisone Australia policy in the late 1980.Contact between people of different culture in Australia has been characerized by tolerance and engagement,but.have also occasionally resulted in conflict and rifts.Australia's diverse migrant communities have brought with them food,lifestyle,and cultural practies,which have been absorbed into mainstream Australian culture.

Argentina  :-

          The premble of Argentina's constitution explicity promotes immigration,and recognizes the individual's multiple citizenship from other countries.Though 97% of Argentina's population  self-identity as of European decent to  this day a high levelof multiculturalism remains a features of Argentina's culture,allowing foreign festivals and holidays,supporting all kinds of art or culture expression from ethic groups.

Canada :-

            Sikhs is celebrating the sikhs new year in Toronto,Canada.Canadian society is very progressive,diverse,and multiculture.Multiculturalism was adopted as the official policy of the Canadian government in the 1970 and 1980.Multiculturalism teflected in the law through the canadian multiculturalism.Globe and Mail,discribed Canada as the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe,citing it as 'a model for the world'.IT would be of befit to all societys in other parts of the world.

Germany:-

               In Germany first time multicultural is debatable point.Muslim immigrants have integrated into German society.The Ahmadiya muslim group to have been granted ''corporation under public law status'',putting the Communityon par with the major Christian vhurches and Jewish communities of Germany.

Netherland :-

                   In Netherland policy of multiculturalism was adopted in the early 1980.Commonwealth made a distinction between tolerance and multiculturalism.Netherland stands as a tolerant rather than multicultural society.

Japan:-

            According to Harvard University professor Theodore Bestor 'japan look very homogeneous from a distant perspective,but in fact there are a number of very significant minority groups.

South Korea :-

                     The word Multiculturalism is hardly increased in south korea.IN 2007 proffesor of cultural Anthropology published article related multiculturalism.The Korea times suggested in 2009 that south korea was linkely to become a multicultural society.

United States:-

                         Multiculturalism is not clearly established but ethnic diversity is common in rural and urban areas.According to philosophy multiculturalism began as part of the pragatism movement at the end of the nineteen century.

India:-

               India is a multicultural country in many faculty culturally linguistically,religiously ,etc.There are 1652 indigenous language in the country of India in 1961 census of India.

     The culture of India has been shaped by its history.In India we can see many culture or multiculture as under,

 

     In this picture we can see that the Indian tradition to way of wearing ''Kafani with Safa'' so that we can say tradition of India.But in other picture we can see the Dulha wearing ''Safa'' with'' coat'' .so that is  the multiculturalism.

     There are many riligious living togather in India and many Gods in India like Shiva,Krishna.Ganpati,khodal Ma, etc. There is a picture related with Indian religions as under,

       In this picture we can see various symbol related with religions.There are many castes in India like,patel,Brahmin,koli,vaniya etc.In India Hindu  is the major religions.The statistics are Hindu,(80.5%),Muslim(13.4%),Sikh(2.1%),Christian(2.3%).SO this is also an example of multiculturalism.There are many language in India like Tamil,Gujarati,Tailugu,Hindi,Kannad.Malayalam,etc.

        The term multiculturalism is not much used in India.But we can find many things related with multiculturalism.

America:-

                       In  this country we can find multiculturalism.There are African American writers,it is widely pursude in American literary criticism.

       This in America we can find many examples of multiculturalism.And especially in writing we can get multiculturalism.So we can find multiculturalism in different countries as above.

Conclusion :-

                             So, after understanding these all points we can understand that what is multiculturalism? Now  we can say that multiculturalism is mixing of many things in one thing.Adopting any new thing from other culture into our culture that is multiculturalism.For example, we can see in the festival of Navratri that our traditional 'garaba' or ras converted into dance so that  we call multiculturalism.When any teacher or mathematic gives the understanding of life so it is multi.As same multiculturalism means mixture of two things or more  than two so it is multiculturalism.Or perheps it is the effect of Globalization.Because of Globalization we can see more example  of multiculturalism in society and in literature also.

       Thus ,Multiculturalism is a wide term which can understand by this type of examples easilly.

Refferences book

''Multiculturalism'' by Dhawan&pabby

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